...but variable service,—two dishes, but to one table: that's the end. King. At supper ! where 1 580 Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of...eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. King. Alas, alas! Ham. Nothing, but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar....

...Prince of Denmark was in the like mood when, in other company, he talked, to the same purpose, of how a man may fish with the worm* that hath eat of a king...; and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. Well may Juvenal bid the meditative moralist, expende Annibatem, and expound the text that Mors sola...

...your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, — two dishes, but to one table : that 's the end. King. Alas, alas ! Ham. A man may fish with...progress through the guts of a beggar. King. Where is Polonins? Ham. In heaven; send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the...

...is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. Claudius: Alas, alas. Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. Claudius: What dost thou mean by this? Hamlet: Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress...

...maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service — two dishes, but to one table. ... A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. ... To show how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar" (IV.iii.2.i-31). Here is a description...

...Folio or Second Quarto's, their veiled threat, Claudius is attentive. "What dost thou mean by this?" "Nothing but to show you how a King may go / a Progress through the guts of a Beggar." The acid sting of this line is double. It mocks Claudius's pretensions to "divinity," the aura that...

...secretions, which are released when the insect is threatened by a predator. Fly-tying and fly-fishing A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king And eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet FISHING is IN all probability the world's second oldest profession....

...Hamlet, the mention of king and beggar suggesting a further and more intimate association, continues: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. (IV.iii.27-29) "What dost thou mean by this?" Claudius demands, his suspicion aroused. "Nothing," Hamlet...

...principles of ecology was produced by Shakespeare in Hamlet when he wrote lines like the following: "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm." "We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots." "lmperious Caesar, dead and...

...until these are eaten again. Shakespeare mocks the human or unnatural state with the lines: Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king...fed of that worm. King: What dost thou mean by this? Hamlet: Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through tbe guts of a beggar. Human bemgs...